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The district will create its own project-based learning program A student walks past an entrance next to the 11/12 school office at the new South Commons and entrance at Linn-Mar High School in Marion, Iowa, home Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Superintendent Shannon Bisgard is photographed Aug. 9, 2018, at the Linn-Mar Learning Resource Center in Cedar Rapids. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette) Trace Pickering, executive director of Iowa BIG, gives the keynote address Sept. 21, 2017, during The Gazette’s Iowa Ideas conference at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Cedar Rapid...

I remember feeling tense on the day of my HBS interview. Not only because I was nervous about the interview—although I was—but because if I was admitted, I was unsure whether I belonged at HBS. I am a Midwestern, first-generation college graduate from a blue-collar family. It didn’t matter that I spent six years living in New York and Switzerland and that I built my career in public accounting and finance. Harvard—and the Ivy League for that matter—always felt like a place for other people. I’ve been through transitions before. I went from playing basketball on a rundown outdoor ...